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Dustcat
Jan 26, 2019

Cpt_Obvious posted:

Starving babies don't vote.

tbf, neither do well fed ones, so i don't know why we even make baby formula

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Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

Dustcat posted:

tbf, neither do well fed ones, so i don't know why we even make baby formula

For some strange reason I immediately thought of Diane feinstein chastising the children asking her to fix climate change with "You don't vote, I don't care"

Griz
May 21, 2001


MSDOS KAPITAL posted:

there is probably nothing the US government could realistically do to solve the baby formula shortage. no direct solution from congress is possible. politicians will yell and scream and point fingers and, after enough time has passed and infants have died for the market to half-assedly sort it out for them, they'll try to take credit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950

they should have done this for covid too but instead they sat there doing nothing while 1m+ people died because they're useless loving cowards

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


Dustcat posted:

tbf, neither do well fed ones, so i don't know why we even make baby formula

Nobody can afford to make babby anyway unless they're rich enough to just outright buy one from one of those Ukrainian surrogacy farms

Thanks Obidenbama

War and Pieces
Apr 24, 2022

DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

Maya Fey posted:

wonder how much this cost


as much as it pains me to say it "Drumpf" and "Cheeto Voldemort" we're the only Dem slurs that stuck

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

Griz posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950

they should have done this for covid too but instead they sat there doing nothing while 1m+ people died because they're useless loving cowards

they even used it earlier on rubber firehoses

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...ency-officials/

so to recap :

dying infants : I sleep
fires threatening mansions : REAL poo poo

cagliostr0
Jun 8, 2020

War and Pieces posted:

as much as it pains me to say it "Drumpf" and "Cheeto Voldemort" we're the only Dem slurs that stuck



Yeah that sure made Trump look bad

Iron Crowned
May 6, 2003

by Hand Knit

cagliostr0 posted:



Yeah that sure made Trump look bad

We sure got him there

Honest Thief
Jan 11, 2009
https://twitter.com/buffalocialism/status/1526207880768196608

i dont even know where this belongs but lol

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

The democrat party can own itself into bankruptcy now!

empty whippet box
Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
borrow massively to fund your campaign

campaign then defaults/goes bankrupt

bailout the debtors

everyone wins!

pushpins
Sep 11, 2006


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empty whippet box posted:

borrow massively to fund your campaign

campaign then defaults/goes bankrupt

bailout the debtors

everyone wins!

Also write a book and have your campaign buy thousands of copies

MSDOS KAPITAL
Jun 25, 2018





Griz posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Production_Act_of_1950

they should have done this for covid too but instead they sat there doing nothing while 1m+ people died because they're useless loving cowards
I'm referring more to what you can reasonably expect the US government to do, not what technically doesn't violate any known physical laws.

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008


hadn’t they previously held that the candidate themself can spend whatever they want on he “speech” that is campaigning? this is just the same thing, no?

Dustcat
Jan 26, 2019

hobbesmaster posted:

hadn’t they previously held that the candidate themself can spend whatever they want on he “speech” that is campaigning? this is just the same thing, no?

it's not the same thing, because now they can accept legal bribes to pay off that debt after they're already in office

Apraxin
Feb 22, 2006

General-Admiral
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1526232032082280449?cxt=HHwWgoCy0cz8oa4qAAAA
lol

Griz
May 21, 2001


https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/1526215401469878272

empty whippet box
Jun 9, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

we must scold harder

Ville Valo
Sep 17, 2004

I'm waiting for your call
and I'm ready to take
your six six six
in my heart
Did our shopping yesterday and the shelves were full of similac or something. Looked like baby formula. Is that something else? Is it a regional shortage? We’re a gay DINK family so idk I was getting greek yogurt.

Fake edit: it was locked up though. Def can’t let thieves feed children

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/1526215401469878272?s=20

Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

One more time, with gusto!

https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/1526215401469878272

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002



lol NY turning into a loving swing state

indigi
Jul 20, 2004

how can we not talk about family
when family's all that we got?

Ville Valo posted:

Did our shopping yesterday and the shelves were full of similac or something. Looked like baby formula. Is that something else? Is it a regional shortage? We’re a gay DINK family so idk I was getting greek yogurt.

Fake edit: it was locked up though. Def can’t let thieves feed children

similac is one kind of baby formula yes. some babies are allergic to it or don’t digest it well, and even if they’re fine with it have fun switching if they’re used to something else, it can be a nightmare

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


Happy Noodle Boy posted:

lol NY turning into a loving swing state

All those competitive districts are gonna have local parties that have rotted into social clubs that don't actually know how to do politics outside of power brokering, they'll get butchered then be permanently written off as unwinnable so nobody gets in trouble for loving up

The Oldest Man
Jul 28, 2003

Wheeee posted:

you: the democrats are going to get destroyed in 2022

the democrats in 2022: lol we just raised another billion dollars and nobody important lost their seat

The future of the #Resistance is Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi hooked up to twin golden thrones; everybody else works in the Trump family dogfood factories and is forced to read a constant stream of fundraising emails from both parties that are literally indistinguishable from each other

F_Shit_Fitzgerald
Feb 2, 2017




:lol: More unpopular than even Trump! What an accomplishment.

Lord of Pie
Mar 2, 2007


War and Pieces posted:

as much as it pains me to say it "Drumpf" and "Cheeto Voldemort" we're the only Dem slurs that stuck

hobbesmaster
Jan 28, 2008

Ville Valo posted:

Did our shopping yesterday and the shelves were full of similac or something. Looked like baby formula. Is that something else? Is it a regional shortage? We’re a gay DINK family so idk I was getting greek yogurt.

Fake edit: it was locked up though. Def can’t let thieves feed children

similac is mainly baby formula, made by Abbott. they do also sell some other stuff under that brand like a toddler drink to use in place of milk for the lactose intolerant.

indigi posted:

similac is one kind of baby formula yes. some babies are allergic to it or don’t digest it well, and even if they’re fine with it have fun switching if they’re used to something else, it can be a nightmare

yeah, just remember that modern nutrition stuff is one of the reasons 1/3 of infants don’t die before their first birthday anymore.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Happy Noodle Boy posted:

lol NY turning into a loving swing state

It already was lol. There was a group of “democrats” who sided with republicans to prevent democrats from controlling the statehouse. Liz Smith was working for them.

Instead of being punished they of course just kept rising through the ranks!

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Trabisnikof posted:

It already was lol. There was a group of “democrats” who sided with republicans to prevent democrats from controlling the statehouse. Liz Smith was working for them.

Instead of being punished they of course just kept rising through the ranks!

I don’t read any new political memoirs but I might read hers which comes out July

quote:


An irreverent look behind the scenes of American politics from one of the most sought-after operatives in the Democratic Party
Lis Smith isn’t your average political strategist and Any Given Tuesday isn’t your typical political memoir. At once a revealing look at human nature at the highest levels of power and an intimate portrayal of a sometimes rocky personal journey, it breaks all the rules. Smith doesn’t pretend to be perfect—she owns the controversial choices that landed her in the tabloids, as well as the unorthodox ones that have paid off and defined her successful career.

Any Given Tuesday follows Smith from her earliest experiences as a college-aged intern to her days as a trusted adviser and confidante to some of the most high-profile politicians in the country—including her star turn as senior adviser on Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign. Animated by Smith’s love for the hand-to-hand combat of politics and sustained by her deeply-held belief that it’s still possible to effect positive change, it’s an odyssey full of highs and lows and larger-than-life characters. Throughout, Smith shows what it’s really like behind the curtain: what happens when the lights go down and the cameras turn off, how it feels to be in the eye of the political media storm, and how the people responsible for heady, life and death decisions are as flawed as the rest of us.

While the journey hasn’t always been smooth, Lis Smith has seen and learned a lot—and she shares it all in this eye-opening, entertaining memoir.

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

MSDOS KAPITAL posted:

I'm referring more to what you can reasonably expect the US government to do, not what technically doesn't violate any known physical laws.

Seize the factory and use it to make formula again, but don't put the poison in it this time.

Agean90
Jun 28, 2008


MSDOS KAPITAL posted:

I'm referring more to what you can reasonably expect the US government to do, not what technically doesn't violate any known physical laws.

given the FDA collaborated with said company to make poison baby formula he could pretty easily torch a few fuckers at the FDA and make a big deal about making it tougher on companies

COPE 27
Sep 11, 2006

"Doing things is impossible" - The Democrats

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
holding a corporation to task for literally anything is illegal in the us now.

Pentecoastal Elites
Feb 27, 2007

this is the year the Democrats will be destroyed

biceps crimes
Apr 12, 2008


Trabisnikof posted:

It already was lol. There was a group of “democrats” who sided with republicans to prevent democrats from controlling the statehouse. Liz Smith was working for them.

Instead of being punished they of course just kept rising through the ranks!

they’re working hard to support the strong Republican Party the democrats want

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice

evilpicard posted:

"Doing things is impossible" - The Democrats

it's true, the government is powerless

projecthalaxy
Dec 27, 2008

Yes hello it is I Kurt's Secret Son


Pentecoastal Elites posted:

this is the year the Democrats will be destroyed

Really? This year? The Democrats will be destroyed in 2022? That doesn't sound right.

cagliostr0
Jun 8, 2020

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

holding a corporation to task for literally anything is illegal in the us now.

Somebody will try, Neil katyal will successfully argue a decision 6-3 that discovery and penalty for destroying evidence is a violation of a corporation's 4th and 5'th amendment rights, then the lawyer arguing on behalf of the dead babies gets life without parole after a private prosecutor gets them found guilty in front of a judge who is a large holder of poison baby formula stocks on the charge of spreading misinformation about the safety of baby formula.

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Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
everything is terrible. deeply foundationally awful. everyone is miserable and a good half the nation believes that they will die young and impoverished and alone after toiling miserably for a few decades, while the other half froths with rage and fear at things they don't understand and have been tricked into believing are threats despite being purely fictional. the planet is dying and millions lay dead from a plague that we are deliberately ignoring and continues to get worse while rich out of touch senile geriatrics further cement a tyrannical oligarchy. the only response from democrats is to weep big soggy tears that a coal baron from the most backwards and stupid state that they agressively helped elect is keeping them from making anything better as the demented democratic president gleefully announces that we no longer help americans who are starving so that we can fight a proxy war with a nuclear power.

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